Stabbed man dies at West Hills Hospital, LAPD wants to know who dropped him off

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A 21-year-old Canoga Park man died of a stab wound late Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016, at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center. The LAPD is looking into who took him to the hospital and where the stabbing occurred. (File photo by Andy Holzman/Los Angeles Daily News)

WEST HILLS >> Los Angeles police are looking for answers in the case of a 21-year-old man from Canoga Park who died from a stab wound after he was dropped off Tuesday night at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center. Police learned of the homicide at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday after the man — suffering from a single stab wound — was taken to the hospital at 7300 Medical Center Drive in West Hills.

LAPD Detective John Doerbecker said that “witnesses fled before we arrived” to the hospital.

“We are trying to put the case together at this point,” Doerbecker said Wednesday, adding that detectives have “no idea” where the crime scene is located.

“We don’t know how far he was driven,” the detective said of the deceased man. “We don’t know the person who dropped him off. We just have that he was dropped off.”